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Nutrition meanings
Meanings/matching & abbreviations
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bland diet | hiatus hernia |
| Cardiac diet | low in fat/cholesterol, restricts sodium and calories |
| Clear fluids diet | liquids that you can see through |
| Diabetic diet | prescribed number of calories |
| Full fluids diet | generally follows clear fluid diet |
| Gluten-free diet | Celiac disease |
| High-calorie diet | anorexia |
| High-fibre diet | stimulates peristaltic action |
| High-protein diet | promotes tissue repair and weight gain |
| Ice chips or sips only diet | major surgery |
| Low-residue/surgical soft diet | colostomy |
| Minced diet | patients can swallow a little |
| No added salt diet | ordered for patients with fluid retention |
| Progressive diet | food introduced in stages |
| Pureed diet | dysphagia |
| Regular diet | no restrictions |
| Soft diet | involves little or no chewing |
| Transitional diet | introduced to selected solid foods before or after surgery |
| 10 Fr. NG tube | 10 French nasogastric tube |
| AL | albumin |
| AST | aspartate aminotransferase |
| BRAT | bananas, rice, applesauce, toast |
| BSP | bowel sounds are present |
| BUN | blood urea nitrogen |
| cal | calories |
| Cardiac diet | diet for patients with heart disease |
| CBC | complete blood count |
| CDA diet | Canadian Diabetic Association diet |
| CF | clear fluids |
| CF-DAT | clear fluids progress to diet as tolerated |
| d/c or dc | discontinue |
| DAT | diet as tolerated |
| DD | diabetic diet |
| EF | enteral feed |
| FF | full fluids |
| FF-DAT | full fluids progress to diet as tolerated |
| GF | gluten-free |
| G-tubes | gastrostomy tube |
| HF | high fibre diet |
| HP | high protein diet |
| IDDM | insulin dependant diabetes mellitus |
| INR | international normalized ratio |
| IV | intravenous |
| J-tubes | jejunostomy tube |
| LOW SODIUM | low sodium diet (less than 3000 mg/day) |
| LR | low residue diet |
| MIC device | bard button |
| NAS | no added salt diet (3000-4000 mg/day) |
| N-G tube | nasogastric tube |
| NIDDM | non-insulin dependant diabetes mellitus |
| NPO | nothing by mouth |
| OGTT | oral glucose tolerance test |
| PAR | parenteral feed |
| PE | puree |
| PEG tube | percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube |
| PTT | partial thromboplastin time |
| REG | regular/full diet |
| SOFT/SURGICAL | soft surgial diet (low in fibre) |
| SS | surgical soft diet |
| T&A | tonisilectomy and adenoidectomy |
| TPN | total parenteral nutrition |
| TPN baseline | total parental nutrition baseline lab work |
| VERY LOW SODIUM | very low sodium diet (2000 mg/day or less) |
| VMA | vanillylmandelic acid test |
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